As someone who has dunked her feet into a tub of ice many a time after a particularly grueling session of pointe work, I find the blood, sweat, and tears that make up a performer's life are very well represented in Ron Honsa's dance documentary. A multitude of A-list choreographers speak their piece to the camera — Merce Cunningham, Judith Jamison, Mark Morris — as they gather for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass. The scenery surrounding the 81-year-old retreat and performance center is lush and serene, and it's clear that a performance here would be breathtaking. But the magic of the stage infusing these dancer's stories very seldom carries over onto screen. The immediacy and sacrifice of a live piece doesn't come through, and Honsa's message suffers as a result. That being said, the historical footage of Jacob's Pillow is fascinating, and if you've ever slogged through an hours-long tech rehearsal, look no further for your comrades-in-arms.

Review: That's My Boy Director Sean Anders does nothing to mop up this gross-out comedy mess about a middle-school boy who gets molested by his teacher and ends up raising their love child — with disastrous results.

Review: Girlfriend One night Evan's mother (Amanda Plummer) asks him to make a wish. He says he wants a girlfriend, and his wish comes true, but at a cost.

Review: Brave Disappointing on a story level, this fable in the feminist Disney Princess mold (unremarkably so) signals problems from the start.

Review: Your Sister's Sister Seattle slacker Jack (Mark Duplass) has been beating himself up over his brother's death for a year, so his brother's ex-girlfriend (Emily Blunt) — who is also Jack's best friend— offers him her father's cabin in the San Juan Islands for the weekend to clear his head.

Review: A Cat In Paris Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol's nicely hand-drawn and colored French cartoon was a 2012 Academy Award nomination for best animated film.

Review: The Matchmaker Arik (Tuval Shafir), a restless Israeli teenager, struggles against the cultural limits of Haifa in 1968 — it's a provincial prism untouched by rock music or the sexual revolution.

Review: Pink Ribbons, Inc. Near the end of this documentary a woman calls the pink ribbon of breast cancer-awareness a "made in China" tag.

Review: 5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, goes through five different cameras from 2005 to 2010, each one broken when the Israeli military or police assault him as he tries to record the ongoing turmoil.

Review: Portrait of Wally Somewhere in the slog of Andrew Shea's Portrait of Wally is a devastating story of institutionalized extortion and its victims.

DIY DRINKING: HOUSE-MADE INGREDIENTS ARE RAISING THE BAR | March 12, 2013 "When I moved to Boston," UpStairs on the Square bar manager Augusto Lino explains, "it was uncommon for bars to have anything house-made beyond a large container of vodka filled with pineapple on the back bar."

FRESH BLOOD: MEET BOSTON’S NEW CULINARY MUSCLE | February 21, 2013 Whether behind the line of a critically acclaimed kitchen, holed up in a basement pumping out some of the best nosh in the city, or braving Boston’s pothole-filled roads to bring you ass-kicking bites, these chefs are fast becoming ones to watch.

THE STEEP ASCENT OF TEA CUVÉE | February 13, 2013 We've all been told that once upon a time, angry Bostonians dumped three shiploads of English tea in the harbor to protest taxes, but let's be real here — it was probably just really shitty tea, and they were doing what any of us would do when continually plied with subpar beverage choices.